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The Civil War as Revolution – Part II
[Note: This post continues a series on The Civil War as Revolution which is available at the following links: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, The Revolutionaries of the American Civil War, and Cogitating on Abraham Lincoln as Revolutionary.]
The idea that the American Civil War was a second American revolution originated with Charles and Mary Beard in the late 1920's.[i] It began a debate which has taken pendulum-like swings through the years as history's revisionists and counter-revisionists have tangled with the questions of cause and effect of the war. Beard considered the war a "class conflict between a Yankee capitalist bourgeoisie and a southern planter aristocracy."[ii] It was thus a struggle between the "contending economic interests of plantation agriculture and industrializing capitalism."[iii] He downplayed sectional struggles as a cause of the war and even slavery, considering both consequential and peripheral. Beard's case for the war as transforming on a revolutionary scale was that "the triumph of the North under the leadership of a Republican party, which represented the interests of northern capitalism, brought about 'the unquestioned establishment of a new power in the government, making vast changes in the arrangement of classes, in the distribution of wealth, [and] in the course of industrial development."[iv]He likened it to the overthrow of the king and the aristocracy by the middle classes of England in the 1640s that was the Puritan Revolution and also to the French Revolution in which the middle classes and peasants of France overthrew their king, nobility, and clergy. Beard considered that "'the social cataclysm in which the capitalists, laborers and farmers of the North and West drove from power in the national government the planting aristocracy of the South,' was the 'Second American Revolution, and in a strict sense the First' – the first because the Revolution of 1776 had produced no such changes in the distribution of wealth and power among classes."[v]
Roger L. Ransom, in his article "Fact and Counterfact: The 'Second American Revolution' Revisited," presents two additional "cases" for associating the Civil War with revolution. First, he considers "the elimination of slavery and destruction of the slave regime in the South as the revolutionary outcome of the war."[vi] Both caused post war upheavals in the South.[vii] Secondly, he recognized that the people who lived through the war "saw revolutionary aspects in their struggle. Southerners regarded their 'rebellion' as a revolution against tyranny– in this case Northern Republicans–and looked for inspiration to the war in which their forefathers had rebelled against King George. Northerners, by contrast, saw the conflict as an effort to hold together the sacred union that was formed out of the rebellion against England. For both sides, the Civil War was a continuation of the struggle for freedom that began in 1776."[viii]Perhaps the best case for the Civil War being America's second revolution can be made by considering it in aggregate, the sum of parts. McPherson suggests that the arguments put forth by American political sociologist Barrington Moore, did just that. He "portrayed the Civil War as 'the last Capitalist Revolution.'"[ix] Moore "sees the revolutionary dimension of the war not simply as a triumph of freedom over slavery, or industrialism over agriculture, or the bourgeoisie over the plantation gentry – but as a combination of all these things." [x] More in the next post…
Note: For an excellent article by Professor Roger L. Ransom see The Economics of the Civil War.
This series on The Civil War as Revolution continues at the following links: Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and The Revolutionaries of the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln as Revolutionary]
Copyright © 2007 Rene Tyree
[i] Roger L. Ransom, 1999. "Fact and Counterfact: The 'Second American Revolution' Revisited."Civil War History45, no. 1: 28. Database on-line. Available from Questia, http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001254452. Internet. Accessed 27 October 2007.
[ii] James McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 8., [iii] Ibid., 6-7, [iv] Ibid., 7, [v] Ibid., 8.
[vi] Ransom, "Fact and Counterfact: The 'Second American Revolution' Revisited," Civil War History, 4, [vii] Ibid., [viii] Ibid.
[ix] McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, 9., [x] Ibid.


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Hadiya Pendleton, 15, a student at King College Prep, was killed Tuesday at a Chicago park.
A 15-year-old girl who performed at President Obama's inauguration last week was shot dead Tuesday while hanging out with friends after school in bullet-scarred Chicago.
Hadiya Pendleton -- described by family as a "walking angel" -- was standing under a canopy in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park when a gunman ran down an alley, opened fire and fled in a white car, police said.
Pendleton was shot in the back but managed to run about a block before she collapsed, officer Laura Kubiak said. She died at the hospital.
A 16-year-old boy was wounded in the 2:20 p.m. incident. Police said Pendleton, who had no criminal record, was probably not the intended target.
"Never in a million years did I think I would get a call that my own baby had been gunned down," Pendleton's mother, Cleo Cowley, said through tears from her Chicago home.
She said she was at work Tuesday afternoon when she got an unexpected call from one of her daughter's friends.
"She was screaming on the phone that Hadiya's been shot, she's been shot, and I just didn't understand," said Cowley.
She and other relatives described the teen as a honor student, an insatiable reader who still found time to play volleyball and a twirl a baton in the school marching band.
"As usual, the bad guy aims, but he never hits the other bad guy . . . He hits the one that hurts the most to lose," the victim's godfather, Damon Stewart, 36, who is a police officer, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
"I changed her diapers, I played with her growing up. My heart is broken."
A sophomore at selective King College Prep High School, Pendleton had traveled to Washington to perform with the band at inaugural events.
"It was the highlight of her young 15-year-old life," Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said Wednesday at a Senate hearing on gun violence.
"Just a matter of days after the happiest day of her life, she's gone."
White House spokesman Jay Carney called the shooting a "terrible tragedy" and said the Obamas were praying for Pendleton's family.
Cousin Shatira Wilks said the inauguration trip was the talk of a family gathering around New Year's, but the young majorette was even more excited about something else: plans to travel to Europe this spring with the band.
"She was an honor student all her life," Wilks said. "Honestly, she was a walking angel. She never once gave her mom any problems ever."
Wilks said the teen doted on her 10-year-old brother, Junior, who is devastated.
"At Christmas this year, she was designated the elf and she handed out all the gifts," she recalled.
"She loved rock music. She was always listening and playing to music," Wilks said,. "What you would usually catching her doing is texting on her phone, like all the teenagers."
Pendleton last tweeted just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday. "I'm tired," she wrote.
Many of her classmates changed their Twitter handles to honor her and decried the violence that had claimed an innocent life.
"You are more than loved and missed," one wrote. "Your laugh smile and silly happy personality has made my day more times than I can remember. Nobody deserves this, especially not you."
Friends of the young majorette described her as a bubbly, well-liked student.
"She was always smiling and laughing," said Tyler Genovesi, 14. "She was just a really nice person. … There's a lot of people crying in school today. It's very sad. The band is playing for her right now."
Pendleton's murder was one of three shooting deaths in the city on Tuesday. More than 40 people have been shot dead in Chicago since the beginning of the year. There were 506 homicides in the city last year, a 16 percent increase even as other large cities, like New York, saw murders drop.
"We are awash in guns," Durbin said, noting that six times as many guns as confiscated in Chicago as in New York each year. We have guns everywhere and some believe the solution to this is more guns. I disagree."
Cowley broke down sobbing when she was told that her daughter's death had been mentioned in the Senate.
"Something does need to change," she said. "Where are the guns coming from? I don't own a gun. My daughter was not violent. I never would have thought she would die like this."
Tale of two cities: Homicides leap in Chicago, plummet in New York
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., talks about the surge in gun violence in Chicago, highlighting the tragic story of Hadiya Pendleton, a city honor student who was shot and killed after performing at President Obama's inauguration.

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John LaPlante is a contributing editor at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, where he gives input for various publications, including Michigan Capitol Confidential. As an independent editorial professional, he has written about government pensions, K-12 education and other topics in public policy.
He has done editorial work for Center of the American Experiment, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs and other state-focused think tanks. He managed a website for State Policy Network, focusing on health care policy, and has also written for some well-known organizations with a national scope. He is a policy fellow at the Kansas Policy Institute and Center of the American Experiment and has worked on marketing projects for Thomson Reuters.
LaPlante has been published by newspapers such as The Detroit News, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the Wichita Eagle. He has occasionally appeared on radio programs, including on Detroit's WJR-AM.
A native of Flint who grew up in Muskegon, LaPlante earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Kalamazoo College and a master's degree in political science from Ohio State University.
When he isn't helping his clients with their work in public policy, he manages a snowboarding-focused website for adults over 40. His work there has been noticed by USA Today and Crain's Detroit Business, among others. LaPlante lives with his family in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota.


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It's Friday, folks, and there is officially one week left in the month of February. That means the only thing standing between you and spring is St. Patrick's Day—and probably one or two or three more snowstorms.
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Temple coach Fran Dunphy isn't the sugarcoating type. He's a non-nonsense guy from Philly. He calls it the way he sees it.
So Dunphy wasn't about to pretend he isn't nervous about the Owls facing top-seeded Indiana, a team with size, speed, power, depth, two All-American candidates and 3-point shooters at every position, a program primed to make another run to a national championship.
Hard to find any flaws in these Hoosiers.
"The problem is there's not a weakness they have," Dunphy said Saturday. "We're concerned."
And rightly so.
Temple, which scraped past North Carolina State in the opening round, faces a daunting task Sunday when it meets Indiana in the third round of the NCAA tournament. The Hoosiers (28-6) have been one of the nation's most consistent teams all season and seem to be peaking at the perfect time.
Dunphy knows what he and his team are up against.
"There's a reason why they are a first seed," he said. "They're a terrific team."
Indiana wasted little time in blowing out James Madison to win its opener 83-62, a game that wasn't nearly as close as the final score. The Hoosiers blitzed the overmatched Dukes from the start, built a 33-point lead and were in such control in the second half that coach Tom Crean was able to get his starters some valuable rest.
Temple's players were in the stands to watch, and get a firsthand look at the Hoosiers. The ninth-seeded Owls were impressed, but they're not frightened.
Shortly after he scored 31 points, despite playing most of the second half with an injured left thumb, Owls star guard Khalif Wyatt was asked if he wanted to play James Madison or Indiana.
"Indiana," he said without hesitation.
With a day to rethink his answer, Wyatt still prefers the Hoosiers.
"It will be a good challenge for us," said Wyatt, the Atlantic 10's Player of the Year. "That's why you play basketball. You want to play against the best. It's a good challenge for us, a great opportunity for us, and we'll be ready for it."
Wyatt said X-rays were negative on his thumb, which twisted when he got it caught inside the jersey of a Wolfpack defender. He came out of the game for a few minutes, got taped up and returned to make all the big plays — and six free throws in the final 32 seconds — as the Owls avoided being knocked out in their first game for what would have been the fifth time in six years.
"It's a little sore right now, but it will be fine," Wyatt said.
The Owls better hope so. Wyatt gives them a fighting chance against the Hoosiers, who likely will assign Victor Oladipo, the Big Ten's defensive player of the year, to guard him. Wyatt, averaging 20.2 points per game, might be one of the few Temple players who could crack IU's lineup.
Wyatt plays with swagger. He's good. He knows it, and he won't back down from any challenge.
"You can tell that there's no moment that's too big for him," Crean said. "The bigger the stage, it doesn't make any difference. He can get it to the rim, he can score on a pull-up, he can make 3s from range, and he can find his teammates.
"So when you have somebody like that that can hurt you and beat you from so many different aspects of his game, that makes him that much more of a dangerous opponent."
Wyatt expects Oladipo to be on him, to chase him, harass him, do anything he can to take the 6-foot-4 senior out of his game.
"He's a good defender," Wyatt said. "But, I mean, not the first good defender."
There's a toughness to the Owls that makes them appealing. They play hard at both ends, share the ball and are willing to do whatever it takes to win.
Crean credits Dunphy, who took over the Owls after 17 years at Penn, for making Temple tick.
"Watching his teams, you see they're not going to get surprised," Crean said. "They're not going to beat themselves. They're going to have an answer for everything. You can just see that in the quality of their play."
If Temple has any advantage going against the Hoosiers, it's that they know Dayton Arena well.
On a visit earlier this season, Temple beat the Flyers 72-71 and the Owls, who have played 13 games decided by five points or less, seemed to be comfortable in the familiar surroundings against North Carolina State.
There's also an historical nugget on Temple's side as it tries to become the third team from Philadelphia to upset a No. 1 seed in Dayton. In 1981, Saint Joseph's stunned top-ranked DePaul, and four years later, Villanova knocked off Michigan State on the way to a national title.
Temple's best chance to win may be to hang around and hope the Hoosiers tighten. On Friday, Indiana freshman guard Yogi Ferrell outscored James Madison 9-0 in the opening minutes and the Dukes never recovered.
Dunphy knows keeping Ferrell under control is one of the keys to toppling Indiana.
"He can really play," Dunphy said. "He's just fast, can shoot, makes plays, makes his team better and looks like he's a tough competitor."
The same could be said of all the Hoosiers.
"I'm concerned," Dunphy said.
He's not kidding.
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Farm bill splits produce growers, food activists
Washington -- Five years ago, California farmers were a powerful ally of the new food movement's crusade to get Washington to stop subsidizing corn and start promoting the fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts that are the mainstay of the state's huge farm sector.
This year, Bay Area food activists are on their own.
The fight is over a new farm bill, now before the Senate, that will spend nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, set national nutrition policy for a country staggering under the rising cost of obesity, and determine environmental policy on the 40 percent of the U.S. land mass, including a quarter of California, that is farmed.
California growers are not agitating for major changes in the focus or direction of farm policy because the bill preserves their key programs.
"We don't get into the pros and cons of other commodities," said Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers, which represents California's fruit and vegetable growers. "We just try to deal with what's happening to our industry, and let commodities fight their own battles, and we fight ours."
California Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer both cited the California produce industry's backing as a key reason the senators support the overall bill. "The specialty crops are all for it," Feinstein said.
Boxer issued a statement that she is "pleased that the bill takes great steps forward on specialty crops."
Farm vs. food bill
This month, 70 leading food activists, including UC Berkeley's Michael Pollan and Berkeley restaurateur Alice Waters, signed a letter saying the $969 billion bill that the Senate Agriculture Committee touts as a major, money-saving reform still "falls far short" of turning the farm bill into a food bill, to use Pollan's formulation. To do that would require shifting taxpayer support from large corn, soybean and other commodities to fresh food and conservation.
"The food movement realizes that there's not going to be the huge structural change in the farm bill that's needed, so they're playing the long game," trying to win public support for their cause, said Michael Dimock, president of Roots of Change, a San Francisco group pushing to make California agriculture more sustainable.
Working to keep gains
"Western Growers and the commodity groups are playing the short game," he said, securing their interests in the current bill.
California produce growers, having won support for fruit, nut and vegetable research, pest management, and marketing in the 2008 farm bill want to hold onto those gains as the Senate seeks to trim spending overall.
Western Growers is unhappy with the bill's $6.5 billion cut in conservation funding, including the elimination of a program that helped Central Valley farmers convert old diesel engines to cleaner engines that cut air pollution as much as 75 percent. Nonetheless, the Senate bill extends key fruit and vegetable programs that California won in 2008, and the growers want to keep those gains.
"We'd like to see it passed with no amendments," Nassif said.
'Bait and switch'
While the bill saves $50 billion by eliminating several discredited giveaways to large corn and other commodity growers, it plows most of those savings into different subsidies to the same crops. The biggest of these is crop insurance, which would cost an estimated $95 billion over the next decade. Taxpayers pay 62 percent of the premiums, and additional subsidies to the companies and agents that sell it. Unlike the old programs, crop insurance has no income limits, no subsidy caps, and no requirements to conserve soil, wetlands or grasslands.
"It's a classic bait and switch," said Ferd Hoefner, policy director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, a group supporting conservation and sustainable farming. "They say, 'Oh, we're going to reform commodities, which is going to go down slightly in dollars, but we're not going to do any reform on crop insurance, which is going to go up in dollars."
In addition, the bill creates new entitlement programs that would protect some growers from even small dips, or "shallow losses," in their incomes. With farmers reaping a record $98 billion in net income last year, some experts said the new program could end up costing taxpayers more than the old programs if prices return to their historical averages.
Redirect subsidies
Having failed to make big changes in a bill that came out of the Agriculture Committee, food and environmental activists, joined in part by fiscal conservatives, are waging a new battle on the Senate floor, pushing a series of amendments that would scale back commodity subsidies and use the savings to boost fresh fruit and vegetable consumption, increase conservation, and aid organic and local farming.
Kari Hamerschlag, an analyst with the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group that opposes crop subsidies, said just 600 farmers in California, or 2 percent, receive 33 percent of the crop insurance subsidies going to the state, an average of $98,000 apiece. Capping the subsidies at $40,000 per farm would save $33 million in California alone, Hamerschlag said. That would be enough, she calculated, to provide the fresh fruit and vegetable snack program for poor children to 1,178 schools, or quadruple the money for local and regional food programs in the state, or increase a conservation incentive program by half.
"As a nation we have to decide, is it more import to subsidize high profits for crop insurance companies, or healthy food for kids?" Hamershlag said.
Proposed farm bill amendments
The Senate is expected to resume debate this week on a new farm bill that will cost $969 billion over the next decade. Food and environmental activists, and fiscal conservatives are following several key amendments. Among them:
-- Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., would cap crop insurance subsidies at $40,000 per farmer, saving $5.2 billion over a decade. Only 4 percent of the nation's largest farms would be affected, according to the General Accountability Office.
-- Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., would reduce crop insurance premium subsidies for farmers earning more than $750,000 a year, or $1.5 million for married couples.
-- Sen. Kristen Gillebrand, D-N.Y., would reduce subsidies that go to crop insurance companies and agents to offset planned cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, and a fresh fruit and vegetable program for poor school children.
-- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has offered four amendments:
-- To restore a program that helps Central Valley farmers convert old diesel engines to more efficient ones that cut air pollution up to 75 percent.
-- To apply California's rules requiring humane treatment of egg-laying hens to egg producers nationwide.
-- To change the formula that distributes subsidies to crop insurance companies so that California's produce farmers have the same access to the program as farmers in the rest of the country.
-- To require a study to examine the feasibility of using crop insurance to cover losses by produce growers who have been damaged by, but are not responsible for, food safety recalls.
Carolyn Lochhead is the San Francisco Chronicle's Washington correspondent. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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We love salads, but they've gotta be a) gigantic and b) not boring. We took inspiration from a steak stir-fry and a tropical pizza, waved our magic salad tongs, and POOF! These incredible recipes appeared...
Entire recipe: 290 calories, 4.5g total fat (2.5g sat fat), 870mg sodium, 40g carbs, 8g fiber, 25g sugars, 26.5g protein Freestyle™ SmartPoints® value 5* Teriyaki steak strips, mandarin oranges, and an amazing two-ingredient dressing... Dive in!
Ingredients: 3 oz. thinly sliced raw lean beefsteak filet 1 tbsp. thick teriyaki marinade or sauce 4 cups chopped romaine lettuce 1/4 cup bagged coleslaw mix 1/4 cup chopped cucumber 1/4 cup mandarin orange segments packed in juice, drained 1 tbsp. seasoned rice vinegar 1/2 cup chopped sweet onion 1/2 cup halved sugar snap peas 1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper 1/2 cup bean sprouts Directions: In a medium bowl, toss beef with 1/2 tbsp. teriyaki marinade/sauce. Cover and marinate in the fridge for 10 - 15 minutes. Meanwhile, place lettuce in a large bowl (or on a large plate). Top with coleslaw mix, cucumber, and drained orange segments. To make the dressing, in a small bowl, combine seasoned rice vinegar with remaining 1/2 tbsp. teriyaki marinade/sauce, and stir until uniform. Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat. Add onion, sugar snap peas, and bell pepper. Cook and stir until slightly softened, about 4 minutes. Add bean sprouts, along with marinated beef and any excess marinade from the bowl. Cook for about 3 minutes, until beef is fully cooked. Remove from heat and let cool slightly, about 2 minutes. Top salad with cooked veggies and beef, and serve with dressing! MAKES 1 SERVING
Entire recipe: 280 calories, 8g total fat (2g sat fat), 990mg sodium, 32g carbs, 6.5g fiber, 22g sugars, 20.5g protein Freestyle™ SmartPoints® value 4* Aloha... That's us saying good-bye to cold pizza and hello to this tremendous pizza-inspired bowl of greens! Ingredients: 4 cups chopped romaine lettuce 1/2 cup diced tomato 1/2 cup pineapple chunks packed in juice, drained and chopped 2 oz. reduced-sodium 97 - 98% fat-free sliced ham (4 - 6 slices), roughly chopped 2 tbsp. diced red onion 2 tbsp. chopped basil 1 stick light string cheese, sliced into coins 2 tbsp. light Italian dressing
Directions: Place lettuce in a large bowl (or on a large plate). Evenly top with all remaining ingredients except dressing. Top or serve with dressing! MAKES 1 SERVING
Ten types of vegetables plus a DIY citrus balsamic make the Hot & Cold 10-Veggie Explosion the stuff salad dreams are made of...
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MONTREAL — What are the odds of three boys from the same minor hockey team making it to the National Hockey League?
And what are the odds they'd all end up in NHL management after they retired?
Mario Lemieux, Marc Bergevin and Jean-Jacques Daigneault played together in the late 1970s for the Ville-Émard Hurricanes in Montreal's southwest district.
As young players, Bergevin and Daigneault could see the buzz created by Lemieux's exceptional skill.
"I was a high-scoring defenceman as a young kid, but often times on the power play I'd stand behind (our) net and go collect my assist at the other end," said Daigneault, now an assistant coach with the Canadiens.
Lemieux would pick up the puck from Daigneault and skate end-to-end, deking everybody along the way.
"He was that good," Daigneault said.
"Back then, he was by far the best player — by far," said Bergevin, now the Canadiens' general manager.
Lemieux went on to become one of the best players in NHL history with the Pittsburgh Penguins, a team he now co-owns. Lemieux was selected by the Penguins with the No. 1 overall pick at the 1984 NHL entry draft, while Daigneault was taken 10th overall that same year by the Vancouver Canucks.
Bergevin, selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the third round of the 1983 draft, and Daigneault both enjoyed long NHL careers on the blue line. They shared their recollections last week of playing for the Hurricanes. (Lemieux declined to be interviewed.)
Before he joined the Hurricanes' peewee Double-A team, Bergevin played for his parish team in Point St. Charles.
"The highest level in your parish you could go was A," he said.
Bergevin played left wing with the Hurricanes, and on occasion on Lemieux's line.
"I've said I just had to go to the net and I had a goal that night," Bergevin joked.
Daigneault was also very good, Bergevin said.
"He was probably the best defenceman at his age in the whole city of Montreal," Bergevin said.
"J.J. was good … he was better than me. Like I was the least of the three."
Daigneault had always played centre, but didn't make the Hurricanes' Double-A peewee team at that position when he was 9.
Like all kids, Daigneault wanted to score goals when he started to play for him in peewee, said Ron Stevenson, 79, their former coach.
"But as soon as I saw him skate I knew that his skating style was that of a defenceman because he could skate backwards as well as forward (and had) tremendous balance on his skates," Stevenson said. "So I convinced him to play defence."
Bergevin didn't have as much natural talent on the ice as Daigneault or Lemieux "but he had lots of guts and he worked hard. He would play injured," Stevenson said.
"He was not the kind to go out and fight or anything like that. But he would play hockey tough and if he was hurt he would play anyway. I guess that's why he was so successful in hockey, he stayed so long, because he was tough — a real competitor.
"One thing they had all in common, they were all very nice boys," Stevenson said of his three former protégés. "And they all came from very good families."
Stevenson, who was a Montreal police sergeant-detective, made his players work hard in practice with lots of skating drills. His assistant coach, Yvan Gauvreau, was also a police officer.
"I was really tough with the kids and I really made them work," Stevenson said.
"I'm sure it benefitted them in the long run because they learned young to work hard and if they didn't work they didn't play."
If his players were late, forgot their equipment or took bad penalties, for example, Stevenson might have them write lines — something Lemieux had to do and Bergevin as well the time he forgot an elbow pad.
"I can't remember the line, but 100 times I had to write it. And my parents made me do it," Bergevin said.
Both men spoke of their former coach's positive influence on them. Stevenson helped mould their work ethic, said Bergevin, who also credits the coach for how they became "structured."
"He raised his voice a few times. But he was a calm person," Bergevin said of Stevenson, who attended his wedding years later.
"The guys reacted so well when he got mad because he never did," Daigneault said.
"I think as far as forming a young kid, aside from your parents, I think he was probably the best person to have around, the best person to see three or four times a week at practice and at games.
"It was a good program to be involved in as a young kid, coming from tough neighbourhoods," Daigneault added. "We came from tough neighbourhoods that were blue-collar families and having somebody like Ron as well as his assistant coach brought discipline to our young lives that we could carry on."
Stevenson enjoyed coaching minor hockey.
"You know what police work is like, you're not exactly dealing with nice people," said Stevenson, who investigated rapes, kidnappings and other major crimes. "And then you end up with hockey … dealing with nice people, nice kids."
Stevenson recalled how Lemieux, who was a dominant player, got hassled by some parents. In peewee, if Lemieux wanted to get a soft drink or hot dog after the game, Stevenson would dispatch a few other kids with him to report back if there was an incident.
He remembers Lemieux being spat on a few times in peewee when he went on the ice by mothers from opposing teams.
"I guess they were jealous because he would be beating their team," Stevenson said.
The Hurricanes won two provincial championships according to Hockey-Québec: their midget Double-A team in 1978 and their bantam Double-A team in 1980. The latter team was Lemieux, Bergevin and Daigneault's final season with the Hurricanes before moving on to midget.
Bergevin said they won most of their tournaments, although not all of them, and noted how they didn't do well at the Quebec International Pee-wee Hockey Tournament. Looking at his peewee team photo, Bergevin rhymed off the names of some former teammates.
"Maybe half the team went on to play major junior," which is rare, he said.
When the Hurricanes travelled to Chicoutimi for a bantam tournament, Bergevin recounted how the players all missed curfew when they went rollerskating.
"Back then roller skates were à la mode, so we all went," Bergevin said. "We missed curfew and I remember (Stevenson) got mad."
Stevenson wasn't pleased with how his team played in the tournament semifinal against their big rivals, a team from Granby. They squeaked past Granby 2-1 thanks to their goaltender.
When he got wind of the missed curfew, Stevenson ordered the kids to be in bed at 7:30 p.m. in the homes where they were billeted on the Saturday night before the final. He had Lemieux's older brother Alain, who was playing for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens at the time, along with another player from that Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team, check to make sure the curfew was respected.
The Hurricanes won the tournament, beating a team from Toronto 11-2.
"Mario was well rested," Stevenson said, smiling. "He contributed eight goals in the final."
Like Lemieux, Daigneault was from Ville-Émard and said they were good friends as young kids but there was also a lot of rivalry "because we always played street hockey against one and other.
"Every time they split up the teams they split myself, Mario on the other side. But the games didn't always end the right way," Daigneault laughed. "We all had the competitive edge."
All three went to the same high school, École Honoré-Mercier.
"I'm the only one that went, though," Bergevin said.
"They didn't go as much," he added, diplomatically.
In summer, they played baseball, but lots of street hockey as well. In winter, they spent hours at outdoor rinks on weekends.
"We'd go outside with our gear and play from 9 until 3 in the afternoon," Bergevin said. "So we played all the time, and then at night we'd go out and play. ... Now I think kids they have more activities they don't spend their whole afternoon playing hockey outside."
Neither Bergevin nor Daigneault had visions of an NHL career at that point in their young lives. A big Canadiens fan, Daigneault said he was having fun, wanted to get better and played as much street hockey as possible.
"It was a passion," Bergevin said. "We just loved playing. I never played hoping to be in the NHL one day. I just played."
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Following the sizzling release of "On Top of the World," R&B saxophonist Jarel Posey (AKA "Jarez") will be touring in the States and overseas with hip hop music rapper Coolio.
Jarez's tour dates are not the normal jazz venues and haunts you would expect either. He tours regularly on the hip hop scene, incorporating the smooth sounds of jazz into cutting edge beats. Jarez is perhaps one of the few jazz artists able to successfully blend the two diverse musical genres. In fact, for several years, Jarez toured with Coolio around the world, dazzling audiences unfamiliar with jazz with his playing skills and showmanship.
"Touring in over 30 countries, the experience was an unforgettable one," explained Jarez. "Performing is one of the most satisfying experiences because I have a spiritual connection with the audience when I'm playing. To have them feel what I feel – well, it's a divine connection. It is a double blessing and joy to be able to bring the gift of jazz to an audience not typically familiar with it, and yet have them embrace and welcome it."
Just as his touring schedule challenges the public's perception of jazz, "On Top of the World" marks a strategic release for this entrepreneurial artist. While the music itself appeals to a broad audience base, Jarez desires to unite the younger generation with jazz. By adding a splash of urban groove with luxurious melodies, Jarez paints a musical tapestry that is culturally rich and brazenly accessible. It is music that inspires change within the contemporary jazz landscape.
The saxophonist's commitment to America's future includes having served as a spokesperson for Environmental Justice and Climate Change's (EJCC) campaign, which served Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in an educational initiative regarding global warming. This opportunity also lent him a chance to develop his fan base even further with selections from one of his previous CD releases, " SAXOHOLIC ," providing the musical signature for the accompanying radio show, "Just Environment" which broadcasted weekly on from Atlanta's Clark University's WCLK 91.9, "The Jazz of the City," and live online at www.wclk.com.
His ability to expand his musical outreach to fans of all ages included multiple appearances on "Cooking with Coolio." Jarez also assisted in the production of Coolio's cookbook of the same name, along with ongoing management of various aspects of Coolio's business operations.
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Strong debut for first post-Facebook IPOJune 27, 2012: 1:11 PM ET
EQT Midstream Partners (EQM) received a warm welcome from the investing world Wednesday.
The natural gas company's shares jumped 12%, one day after pricing its initial public offer at $21, the high end of its range.
It's the first company to go public since Facebook's (FB) much-hyped and very troubled debut on May 18 -- Facebook's stock is down 15% from its IPO price.
Three other companies are schedule to go public this week, and if they all fare well, the IPO market may start to heat up again.
EQT offered investors a healthy dividend of 7% for investing in its shares. Dividends have been particularly enticing recently for investors, who are worried about a global economic slowdown and Europe's escalating debt crisis.
Facebook's IPO had raised concerns about the health and safety of the public markets and left many investors, large and small, embittered
For today at least, executives at the roughly 180 companies currently in the IPO pipeline can breathe a sigh of relief that investors haven't completely eschewed investing in newly public companies.
Still, EQT's IPO was relatively small -- raising $263 million by selling 12.5 million shares. By Friday, investors will have a better reading on the health of the IPO market when all four new companies are trading.


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NORFOLK Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Mark Mayo was fatally shot four times March 24 defending a petty officer of the watch who was not carrying a full complement of weapons and gear, three sources told Navy Times in the most detailed account of the fatal shooting to date.
The POOW, identified only as a female cryptologic technician second class, was a qualified watchstander armed with a 9mm service pistol but lacked the baton and oleoresin capsicum pepper spray often carried by watchstanders and security forces. The baton or the OC spray, as it's known, may have incapacitated the assailant without having to immediately resort to the 9mm's lethal force.
Jeffrey Savage, a 35-year old ex-convict with no authorization to be on base, attempted to board the destroyer USSMahan around 11 p.m. that night for reasons that remain unclear. The petty officer of the watch confronted Savage, who was described as behaving erratically, with a verbal warning and drew her 9mm sidearm. Savage grabbed her pistol in an ensuing struggle.
Mayo, the chief of the guard, raced to the scene as the assault unfolded. The now-armed Savage was poised to shoot the female sailor when Mayo rushed in and, placed himself between them, said a security officer familiar with the tragedy, who like two others asked for anonymity while the investigation continues.
Mayo was shot once in the front, then spun to cover the sailor and was shot three times in the back, the officer said.
Another security force member, armed with a 9mm pistol, and the Mahan's topside rover, armed with an M4 rifle, arrived as these events unfolded and opened fire. Savage was shot three times and died.
Officials have not identified the POOW or the other sailors involved in the shooting, but said counselors have been made available to them, the ship's crew and Mayo's fellow masters-at-arms.
'Flat-out wrong'
Though security personnel are trained to use an escalation of verbal and physical force, Defense Department rules do not require employing such techniques before a weapon is drawn. Deadly force can be used if all lesser means have failed or cannot reasonably be employed.
Still, some sailors are asking whether the use of OC spray or a baton would have led to a different outcome.
Navy security personnel carry the 9mm in Condition 3: safety on, slide forward, magazine inserted, chamber empty. The 9mm would do little good if the sailor did not have time to rack a round before the assailant attacked. It is not clear whether Savage attacked the POOW before she drew her pistol. But some security forces personnel said OC spray would have kept him at bay, or at least slowed his assault.
The petty officer of the watch reacted as trained, said the security forces officer and two petty officers with firsthand knowledge of the deadly confrontation. They emphasized that the POOW's gender was not a factor, saying the investigation will show that a male POOW likely would have acted similarly.
'Any contention that her being a female contributed to the events is flat-out wrong,' the officer said. 'One tragedy has occurred. Sailors don't need to add to the tragedy by false speculations.'
Savage, a civilian truck driver, was not authorized to be on the base and had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in North Carolina in 2008 and spent time in prison a decade earlier for possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute.
Many are calling for the posthumously awarding Mayo the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest non-combat heroism award.
'We owe our lives to his actions,' said Cmdr. Zoah Scheneman, skipper of the Mahan. Mayo will 'live forever in Mahan, and in the hearts of the sailors who walk her decks.'
Shipmates remembered Mayo at an April 7 ceremony on Naval Station Norfolk, where he'd served since May 2011.
According to his obituary, he will lie in state at Temple of Praise Church, 700 Southern Ave., SE, Washington, DC, on Friday from 9 a.m. until services at 11 a.m. He will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery at a date to be determined.


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Right-handed reliever Yoshinori Tateyama has agreed to a minor league contract to remain with the Texas Rangers.
The deal announced Thursday includes an invitation to major league spring training camp.
Tateyama made 53 appearances for the Rangers during the past two seasons after pitching professionally the previous 11 years in Japan. The reliever turns 37 Wednesday.
He had three stints with the Rangers this year after going on the disabled list the first week of the season with a lower back muscle strain and allowed 17 earned runs in 17 innings. In 32 appearances at Triple-A Round Rock, he was 4-0 with six saves and a 1.13 ERA.


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In terms of proposing ASCII representations for things in online communication, without regard to whether or not the 'Air Hug' suggestion is something that will or will not catch on, the following things occurred to me: Things divide into two categories here - the small scale, 'inline' emoticon type ASCII stuff, like smileys, and the large scale graphical extravaganzas of full-blown multi-line ASCII artwork. Neither one is intrinsically accessible, and in terms of the second, I believe that the fact that there are as many accessiblity problems as there are with other kinds of graphics will not stop anyone from using it. ASCII art is out there and will not die - it is a shame that it is in the category of artwork that cannot necessarily be appreciated by all, but perhaps those who cannot see it will come to regard it in the same way that I personally regard opera - I ignore it and save time. The sensible compromise seems to me to suggest that ASCII art should only be used in sites and documents that either relate to ASCII art itself or that have some other kind of intrinsic accessibility issue. A special kind of PRE tag would be good, with an ALT of some sort, and then we could use ASCII art, and would have some way of making it accessible and dealing with the large online legacy of currently inaccessible-due-to-ascii-artwork documents. Meanwhile, the inline emoticons and smileys are so widely distributed online as to have attained, as far as I can tell, the equivalent of language status, in a sense, so it isn't a question of telling people to stop using them, because they wont. Perhaps a solution might be to get screen readers to have a list of the most commonly used ones and translate them accordingly. Such a list could be managed centrally by the WAI, in the form of a simple text file, with each line containing the emoticon and the description seperated by tabs (or something), which screenreaders could update the latest version of on a regular basis and use to translate every :), :-) X| and ~;) they come across. and it should be two way - with an 'insert' smiley option - after all, why shouldn't users of screenreaders be able to use 'winking smiley' or whatever as well as anyone. Maintaining this file would be a reasonable amount of work, I imagine, especially as there may not be universal agreement on the best way to translate each of the major emoticons into each language required, but it seems to me worthwhile in the sense that I feel strongly that solutions to accessibility issues ought to try to bring everyone in to what is already there, not to reduce what is already there to what everyone can already see, as well as making sure that all the new stuff is universally accessible too. I would be happy to help sort this out to the extent that I am able, though I am not an expert on either emoticons or screenreaders - certainly there already exist many listings of 'yer basic online emoticons' - and I thought I'd seen one on the w3c site itself once (though I can't find it right now) - surely it's just a question of finding a list to build a canonical central list from, making sure the suggestion gets directed at screenreader writers and sorting it out with next versions of screenreader software. do no current screenreaders have a 'set this sequence of characters to mean this phrase' option? forwards or backwards? Apologies if this has all been hashed over before. cheers etc., wayne > The idea of an 'Air Hug' may be great but ..those slashes and dots are not > very helpful for those of us who use screen readers. I would not like to see > their use expanded. > Marti > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert C. Neff <firstname.lastname@example.com> > To: 'email@example.com' <firstname.lastname@example.com> > Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 8:27 AM > Subject: suggestion > > >To those who are not familiar with the slang "Air Hug", here is an example. > > If you appreciate what someone has done and this act warrants a hug but > >are separated by distance (short, long, or over the internet) and cannot > >render the hug. You can extend your arms and pretend to hug and say "Air > >Hug" > > > >As I have not seen an ascii representation for an "Air Hug", I propose < > >\../ > and for a "GREAT BIG AIR HUG" < \\..// > > > > >Obviously I am in a good mood! > > > >Rob > >Received on Friday, 15 January 1999 11:02:44 UTC
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The 24th annual Southern Heritage Classic between Tennessee State and Jackson State is set for September 14 at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis.
This marks the 20th year in a row (and 22nd overall) that the teams have squared off in this Classic which began in 1990. Tennessee State is 12-11 all-time in the event while Jackson State is 9-12. The all-time series between the two schools is at 25-20-2 in favor of TSU.
The Big Blue won the 2012 meeting 38-12 in front of 42,257.
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Liverpool edge Swansea in 7 goal thriller
Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson scored two goals apiece as Liverpool registered...
(SportsNetwork.com) – The Winnipeg Jets will try to stay hot on Thursday, as
they aim for a fourth straight win in a road battle against the Ottawa
The Jets have claimed three straight victories, giving the club its second-
longest winning streak of the season behind a 4-0 stretch from Nov. 8-15.
Winnipeg has yielded a total of one goal over its last two victories and is
coming off Tuesday's 3-0 home win against Buffalo.
Al Montoya turned aside 27 shots for his second shutout of the season to lead
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first and third periods and turned aside 10 pucks in the middle stanza.
Keaton Ellerby, Jacob Trouba, and Anthony Peluso all lit the lamp for the
"Confidence, I mean as a goalie that might be your number one strength or
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working hard. Like I said earlier the team is doing a great job in front of
me," said Montoya on the win.
Winnipeg hopes to remain on the right track during a three-game road trip that
begins tonight at Canadian Tire Centre. The Jets are 9-10-1 as the visiting
club this season.
Like the Jets, Ottawa also enters tonight riding its longest win streak since
early November. The Senators have posted consecutive wins over Boston and
Washington to give the club back-to-back victories for the first time since a
three-game winning streak from Nov. 5-9.
The Senators last played on Monday when they picked up a 3-1 win over the
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Mika Zibanejad and Clarke MacArthur each scored once and Craig Anderson posted
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Sometimes, when you're flicking channels, you just have to stop and watch for awhile.
That's what happened to me this week while surfing through news reports. From children at the border with Mexico, to corpses being dragged around Gaza, I saw the momentary black-and-white blur of Andy Griffith's retro coif.
It made me pause. So I sat down, took stock, and yearned for Mayberry.
"The Andy Griffith Show" once etched itself into America's popular conscience. The series ran from 1960-68 and engendered a number of spinoffs and reunions – the last in 2003 – all to top ratings. Today it's one of TV's most popular syndicated shows.
For good reason.
Griffith created Mayberry, a pre-Vietnam idyllic realm harkening back to his childhood home in Mount Airy, NC. With our nation winding down the postwar boom and social optimism, he played Sheriff Andy Taylor, who laid down the law and dispensed folksy wisdom to boot – a real taxpayer bargain, if ever one existed.
Sheriff Taylor also was a single dad. As a widower, he had to raise son Opie, famously played by Ron Howard, on his own. So the lawman not only looked after his town, but as a father he faced the dilemma of being sole parent, all while navigating the minefield of potential romance.
At the time, this dynamic already was known to American TV but wasn't the norm in trying to create a cutesy nuclear family environment.
Still, watching "The Andy Griffith Show" was more than entertainment. It had nothing to do with the real-life Griffith, but rather with the mythology he created around his character.
For many Americans, both old and young, there were lessons learned, values passed along, and morals settled upon. Watching Andy Taylor do the right thing – proper manners, self-effacement and all – was like watching your older brother setting a good example to follow.
As I took in the episode before me, it crossed my mind just how much we tend to mock the clarity of such basic virtues today. Yet Griffith's attributes weren't blue, red, Jewish, Muslim, American, or Mexican – but rather just human.
I'm just as guilty falling prey to the laziness of that Siren song as the next person. But that doesn't mean I should quit trying to be a better person, regardless of the thought police's incursion into my daily life.
To that end, instead of standing on the high ground and demanding that heads roll, Sheriff Taylor reminded us from sea level that redemption above all is humanity's great hallmark.
When I was a boy, I used to watch Andy Taylor to decipher my own parents' decisions. Later, as a young father, I tried to do right by my son. On many a late-night rerun, "the Andy Griffith Show" passed along plenty of good parenting advice.
And looking back, an added benefit was all this counsel came without the profanity, violence, or gore which graces present day screens.
Was Mayberry real?
Of course it wasn't, and it exists nowhere. But maybe when considering all the madness on display in the world today, we can take heart of the good people around us. Their didactic ideals, seemingly out of Mayberry itself, don't need crudeness or vitriol for effective delivery.
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Congress Goes Virtual in Online World Hearing
A Linden Lab worker put on her nicest black suit and her most formal pair of wings this morning, to help run a Congressional subcomittee hearing about online virtual worlds that was broadcast simultaneously in the company's own virtual world, Second Life.
Okay, this might be a little confusing, but here goes: A virtual depiction of the Rayburn House Office Building meeting room was projected on television screens on the wall, so that real-world attendees could take a look at the small virtual crowd that logged on for the event. Attendees logging in from Second Life, meanwhile, could watch the proceedings in a video screen projected on the wall of the virtual room. The real-world guests included executives from Linden Lab, IBM and a tech firm that helps nonprofit organizations take advantage of virtual worlds.
A self-admitted group of virtual-world newbies, the politicians, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - Mass.), asked a wide-ranging group of questions. In an era where technologies can catch on and become mainstream quickly, the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet wanted to know some basics. Could Second Life be used as a place to launder money? Are children safe in online worlds? Are there churches in there? Are you making any money?
"We have never seen any evidence of such activity going on in Second Life," said Linden CEO Philip Rosedale, on the matter of whether criminals could use his company's online world as a place to launder money. Rosedale argued that Second Life is a self-policing community, and that users would likely be quick to report any online behavior that seemed to indicate users posed any real-world threats.
As the politicians and the witnesses discussed the potentials of the online virtual world, the online visitors logged on in Second Life chatted away on the screen in conversations that ranged from the topic at hand and beyond:
"I think senators are superdelegates but not all reps."
"I love flip4mac."
"They should really move the x and the c away from each other on the keyboard." (this following a warning that the video might freeze for "just a sex.")
On the real-world end, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) probably got the best quips out, joking that some people already think Congress is a virtual world, and that Markey was throwing the event merely to learn how to get to the next level in World of Warcraft.
The invite-only event was a bit less chaotic than the time, a couple of years ago, when Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia, made a Second Life appearance and virtual participants floated across the room, apparently unable to control their avatars.
Mike Musgrove
April 1, 2008; 2:09 PM ET
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Is this for real, or is it April Fool's? Please tell me it's April Fool's.
If it isn't, it's just another thing the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet has done to show it knows nothing about the internet.
Posted by: TheRaven7 | April 1, 2008 10:17 PM
You still have the company listed as LINDEN LABS in the article. If you can change the Error in the first sentence, why can't you change it other places.
Posted by: Alexa | April 2, 2008 11:53 AM
"The real-world guests included executives from Linden Labs"
it's Lab.
Posted by: Don Q. | April 2, 2008 11:54 AM
I think only the media and those that are unfamiliar with video games are the only ones that play/use this "game". Seriously, please stop acting like "Second Life" is the second coming, it isn't and it never will be.
Posted by: Ricky Cokely | April 2, 2008 2:15 PM
"I think only the media and those that are unfamiliar with video games are the only ones that play/use this "game". Seriously, please stop acting like "Second Life" is the second coming, it isn't and it never will be."
-- Please....tell that to the people that spends hundreds of thousands of real life money in Second Life's virtual world.
Posted by: Joe Momz | April 2, 2008 2:34 PM
you folks do realize that phillip stepped down as CEO recently, right?
Posted by: reddot99 | April 2, 2008 3:52 PM
Typical Congressional foolery. All show, absolutely no substance.
Posted by: ThickFaceBlackHeart | April 2, 2008 4:59 PM
Yes, like most public hearings, a lot of froth mixed in, but a good introduction for the public, since all of it was archived and can be seen at any time in the future. I'll also add that the government servers made the video of the hearings a fast download.
Also, a history making precedent was set on Tues, with an actual Congressional simulcast into a virtual world. Rep Markey's office has commented favorably on Members' reactions to the idea of future use of VWs (yes, to me that acronym still conjures up a car brand, but times change) for Congressional hearings and other activities.
-Paradox Olbers, SciEye columnist for SPNN, Spindrift island, the SciLands, Second Life
Posted by: Paradox Olbers | April 3, 2008 5:14 PM
Image caption says the avatar is for Sen. Ed Markey. Markey is actually not a senator, but a representative from the great city of Medford, Massachusetts.
Posted by: Ed Holden | April 4, 2008 10:14 AM
Where was the flying penis raid?!
Posted by: poopy | April 4, 2008 10:41 AM
The people spending "hundreds of thousands of real life money" are slowly beginning to realize that they're not about to see a return on their investment that makes any sense.
The hype following news coverage of one single entreprenuer who valued herself at more than a million dollars drove crowds to Second Life in search of that same virtual gold.
It's not there.
Businesses have been pulling out of Second Life quietly, marketing firms are no longer trumpeting it as "the next big thing", and the people so desperate to strike it rich in the virtual world are slowly realizing that it's a losing proposition.
The platform is rife with content theft, IP violations, and technical problems. The company itself has been notoriously slow to respond to complaints, and has a track record of poor customer service.
There is every reason to be excited about virtual worlds - they offer incredible opportunities for learning, sharing and creation.
But they're still in the process of being developed, and none of them really holds the promise of being the "future of the web".
Posted by: Archer | April 4, 2008 10:47 AM
Hey there is an error in your article. Under the first image the text says "Sen. Ed Markey's avatar." Ed Markey is a Representative not a Senator. Just wanted to point that out.
Posted by: Alvaro | April 7, 2008 11:24 PM
no way get out of may world i go online to escape the bs of congress and the goverment but since you stupid lazy sob want to come i give you the world your running away from by bugging me in mine
1.upgrade the US ENGERY GRID if you can can spend billions of dollar to go on line try helping you country and spend that 120 billion and by the way upgrade are internet connections the us internet blows.
2.fix are schools
3.by the way we are at war
Posted by: ROG | April 8, 2008 2:39 AM
on second thought dont do your job we elected you to do and run the country just play WOW all day and night now i know why the congress has not did a dam thing they said they would do when they took office they was to busy playing WOW and this second life game on line now they want to make laws to oversee are game play expiernce talk about the ( the game play experience might change during play) we got congress crawing up are anis to tell we cant nija loot anymore am sure nija looting is is a issue of national intrest.
Posted by: rog | April 8, 2008 2:47 AM
"... 2. fix are schools ..."
" ... congress has not did a dam thing ..."
I can't tell if this is incredibly well thought-out satirical wit or just blathering incompetence. Well, maybe I can.
Posted by: disbelief | April 9, 2008 11:52 AM
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